Lambchop

Lambchop
OH (ohio) continues the Lambchop tradition of releasing challenging, mold-breaking records, revealing endless charms and nuances with their customary modesty. Each Lambchop record represents a new stage in the evolution of their distinctive sound. Most recently, Damaged saw Lambchop songwriter Kurt Wagner leave the porch from which he had viewed the world for so long and start looking inside himself, his dark meditations on mortality and human frailty matched by a band capable of taking delicacy to delicious new heights.

OH (ohio) continues this expansion of their collective horizons: highlights include the slow-motion soul folk of “Slipped Dissolved and Loose,” the shuffling shimmer of the brilliantly titled “National Talk Like a Pirate Day,” the somber majesty of “Please Rise” and the intimate sentiment of “Close Up.” Melodically stronger than ever—the gentle hook of “A Hold of You,” the wordplay of “Please Rise” matched by a heartbreaking simplicity—OH (ohio) also sees their trademark leisurely pace imbued with a notion of beat and movement driven by recent recruit Scott Martin’s drumming, most notably on the surprising, almost funky coda of “Popeye.”

Unyielding to the vagaries of fashion, working entirely on their own terms and responding purely to their artistic muse, Lambchop have earned the considerable respect they now command.

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National Talk Like a Pirate Day

09.19.2008
Ahoy and avast, me lads and beauties! It's International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Lambchop's new record, OH (ohio), includes a song perfect for your personal pirate soundtrack and it is guaranteed to make you say "ARRRR!"

Listen to "National Talk Like a Pirate Day" and tell all the lubbers you know to pre-order OH (ohio) which will be available in stores on October 7.

New Lambchop album OH (ohio) this fall, Kurt Wagner solo tour

07.07.2008
On October 7, Merge Records will release OH (ohio), the new album by Lambchop, a group the All Music Guide has called "arguably the most consistently brilliant and unique American group to emerge [in the past two decades]."

OH (ohio) was recorded in Lambchop's hometown of Nashville and produced by part-time 'chopper Mark Nevers at his Beech House studio. It features 11 new songs all written by Kurt Wagner, many with evocative titles - the stately soul folk of "Slipped Dissolved and Loosed," the galloping rhythms and chiming guitar-piano interplay of "National Talk Like a Pirate Day," and the shapeshifting, nearly funky "Popeye" - that have become a Lambchop hallmark.

Change is a subtle thing in Lambchop's world. As his catalogue suggests, Wagner is a great believer in the natural pace of life. But he does concede that, for a group whose ranks once swelled to more than 20, "The last few years have been about a distillation of the collective into a core band: Tony Crow (piano), William Tyler (guitar), Matt Swanson (bass), Alex McManus (guitar) and now Ryan Norris (keyboards, guitar) and Scott Martin (drums). This is their sound, and it's Lambchop's sound. But," Wagner continues, "Lambchop more and more has become a vehicle for my songs and myself as an artist. I've fought against that interpretation for twenty years, but now I've just given up trying to fight it anymore."

It seems only appropriate, then, that Wagner is planning a U.S. solo tour around the release of OH (ohio). Stay tuned for more information on tour dates in the coming weeks.

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11.20.2008 Malmo, Sweden KB
11.21.2008 Gothenborg, Sweden Sticky Fingers
11.22.2008 Stockholm, Sweden Berns
11.23.2008 Oslo, Norway Chateau Neuf
11.24.2008 Barcelona, Spain Palau de la Musica
A more in-depth version of the LAMBCHOP DISCOGRAPHY can be found at lambchop.info, the Lambchop fan site.


1994
Sorry About the Deformed Heart 3-band cassette w/ Spent & Crop Circle Hoax [cs] (Traumatone, UK) 1994
"Or Thousands Of Prizes" on Rows of Teeth comp. [cd/cs] (Merge) July 25, 1994
"Soaky In The Pooper" b/w "Two Kittens Don't Make A Puppy" [7"] (Merge) July 25, 1994
"My Cliche" b/w "Loretta Lung" [7"] (Sunday Driver) 1994
"It's Impossible" on split w/ Nonpareils and Bartlebees [7"] (Contrast International, Belgium) 1994

I HOPE YOU'RE SITTING DOWN [CD/CS] (MERGE) SEPTEMBER 19, 1994



1995
split 5" w/ Spent (I Sore - 5" club #1) 1995
"I Can Hardly Spell My Name" & "The Scary Caroler" on split w/ Cyod [7"] (Bloodsucker) 1995
"Ovary Eyes" on Notes From The Underground Vol. 2 comp. [cd] (Priority) 1995
"Your Life As A Sequel" b/w "Smuckers" [7"] (Mute America) 1995
split 7" w/ Cyod [7"] (Bloodsucker) 1995

1996
The Man Who Loved Beer [7"/cd5] (City Slang, UK) 1996
"Each With A Bag Of Fries" on Soundtrack To The Bible Belt comp. [cd] (Anhedonia) 1996

HOW I QUIT SMOKING [CD/DBL-LP] (MERGE) JANUARY 30, 1996



HANK [10"/CDEP] (MERGE) JULY 9, 1996


"Playboy, The Shit" on Cowpunks comp. [cd] (Vinyl Junkie, UK) 1996
"Whitey" on Nashville: The Other Side of the Alley--Insurgent Country Vol. 3 comp. [cd] (Bloodshot) 1996

1997
"The Militant" [remixed by Mark Robinson] on MRG100 comp. [cd] (Merge) April 22, 1997
"Gloria Leonard" on Never Kept A Diary comp. [cd] (Motorcoat) 1997
"Whitey" b/w "Playboy, the Shit" [7"] (Merge) May 27, 1997
"Cigaretiquette" b/w "Mr. Crabby" [7"] (Merge) July 8, 1997

THRILLER [CD] (MERGE) SEPTEMBER 23, 1997



1998
"La Distacia Desde Ella Hasta Alli" b/w "?Que Otra Cosa Podria Ser?" [7"] (Elefant, Spain) 1998
"The Petrified Florist" on Loose: New Sounds of the Old West comp. [cd] (Vinyl Junkie, UK) 1998
"Your Sucking Funny Day" [cd5] (City Slang, UK) 1998
"Gimme Your Love (Love Song)" [12"] (City Slang/For Us, UK) 1998

WHAT ANOTHER MAN SPILLS [CD] (MERGE) SEPTEMBER 8, 1998


"Christmas Time is Here" [cd5] (self released) December, 1998

1999
"Oh What a Disappointment," "Up With People," and "N.O." (all recorded live) on De Avonden comp. [cd] (VPRO radio, Belgium) 1999
"Up With People (live)" on Oh, Merge comp. [cd] (Merge) July 6, 1999
"Up With People" on split w/ Dump [7"] (Third Gear) September, 1999

2000

NIXON [CD] (MERGE) FEBRUARY 8, 2000


"Beyond Belief" on Loose: New Sounds of the Old West comp. [cd] (Vinyl Junkie, UK) February 21, 2000
Up With People [12"/7"/cd5] (City Slang, UK) May, 2000
"Up With People (Zero 7 Reprise Mix)" on Grand Slang 1990-2000 comp. [cd] (City Slang, UK) 2000
"Why Won't You Stay" on Come On Beautiful: A Tributer To American Music Club comp. [cd] (Glitterhouse/BiGNiGHT) 2000
"Up With People (Zero 7 Reprise Mix)" on Solar Spectrum 2 comp. [cd] (Obsessive, UK) 2000
"Soaky In The Pooper" on Rough Trade Shops 25 Years Compilation comp. [cd] (Rough Trade Shops, UK) 2000
The Queens Royal Trimma [cdep] (City Slang, UK) 2000

2001
"Christmas Time Is Here" on A Working Stiff Christmas: 15 Years at Springwater comp. [cd/lp] (Tiny Rig) January, 2001
"Up With People" on Nova Tunes, Vol. 2 comp. [cd] (Wagram) April 1, 2001
Treasure Chest of the Enemy Version 1 [cdep] (self-released) June, 2001 "The Fade Away Jumper" on Pop Volume #2 comp. [cd] (Popnews.com, France) June 11, 2001
"Life's Little Tragedy" on Back To Mine Vol. 7: A Morcheeba compilation [cd] (Ultra) September 4, 2001

TOOLS IN THE DRYER [CD/LIMITED EDITION DBL-CD] (MERGE) SEPTEMBER 18, 2001


"Magnificent Obsession" on Are You Ready For The Country? comp. [dbl-cd] (Warner Bros.) 2001
"Beyond Belief" on Beyond Nashville: The Twisted Heart of Country Music comp. [dbl-cd] (Manteca) October 30, 2001
"Butcher Boy" and "I Dream Of Jeannie" (live; Kurt Wagner solo) on Live and Direct comp. [cd] (Spunk/2SER/Festival Mushroom) 2001

2002
"Backstreet Girl" on UNCUT Magazine: Gimme Shelter: 16 Amazing Covers of Classic Songs by The Rolling Stones Volume 2 comp. [cd] (RSC) January, 2002
"Art Lover" on This is Where I Belong: Songs of Ray Davies and the Kinks comp. [cd] (Praxis) February, 2002
"Up With People (Zero 7 Reprise Mix)" on Karma Collection comp. [dbl-cd] (Ministry Of Sound, UK) 2002
"Flub" and "Gusher" on Magic! Magazine comp. [cd] (Magic!, France) 2002
Treasure Chest of the Enemy Version 2 [cdep] (self-released) February, 2002

IS A WOMAN [CD] (MERGE) FEBRUARY 19, 2002

AW CMON [CD] (MERGE) FEBRUARY 17, 2004
NO YOU CMON [CD] (MERGE) FEBRUARY 17, 2004


Autumn's Vicar


from Is a Woman
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Grumpus


from Nixon
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Low Ambition


from No, You C'mon
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Something's Going On


from Aw C'mon
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Steve McQueen


from Aw C'mon
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The Daily Growl


from Is a Woman
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Under Dream Of A Lie


from No, You C'mon
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Up With People (Live)


from Oh, Merge
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What Else Could It Be


from Nixon
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The Gap In My Education (Berman)


from Old Enough To Know Better
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Your Fucking Sunny Day


from Old Enough To Know Better
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Paperback Bible


inspired by The Swap Shop, a Long Haul Productions audio documentary . http://www.longhaulpro.org/from Damaged
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